employ a new full-time national Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) strategic leader and support staff to drive collaboration between adoption agencies across the country and lead engagement with other services such as health and education to help children and adopters get the support they need.<\/li><\/ul>To support delivery of the strategy, we have provided additional funding of £48.1 million in the 2021-22 financial year.<\/p>
We continue to discuss adoption numbers with the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board and with the RAA Leaders\u2019 group. These discussions have suggested that reasons for the decrease include the impact of COVID-19 restrictions in 2020-21, including on the courts and on wider decision-making processes within local authorities and RAAs.<\/p>
Since the national #YouCanAdopt campaign began, we have seen a continued increase in the number of approvals of adopters. We now have more adopters (2,140) than children waiting (2,020).<\/p>
Over 1,000 enquiries were received by the 6 adoption agencies sampled for evaluation purposes. Scaled up, the National Adopter Recruitment Steering Group estimated 10,000+ enquiries across all agencies in England during the campaign period.<\/p>
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Our national adoption strategy, published last year, sets out our bold vision to deliver excellent adoption services across England. It sets our commitment to:<\/p>
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- improve how children are matched with families through removing unnecessary barriers and bureaucracy placed in the way of those seeking to adopt;<\/li>
- continue to support adoptive families through the Adoption Support Fund; and<\/li>
- employ a new full-time national Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) strategic leader and support staff to drive collaboration between adoption agencies across the country and lead engagement with other services such as health and education to help children and adopters get the support they need.<\/li><\/ul>
To support delivery of the strategy, we have provided additional funding of £48.1 million in the 2021-22 financial year.<\/p>
We continue to discuss adoption numbers with the Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board and with the RAA Leaders\u2019 group. These discussions have suggested that reasons for the decrease include the impact of COVID-19 restrictions in 2020-21, including on the courts and on wider decision-making processes within local authorities and RAAs.<\/p>
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Our national adoption strategy, published last year, sets out our bold vision to deliver excellent adoption services across England. It sets our commitment to:<\/p>
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- improve how children are matched with families through removing unnecessary barriers and bureaucracy placed in the way of those seeking to adopt;<\/li>
- continue to support adoptive families through the Adoption Support Fund; and<\/li>
- employ a new full-time national Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) strategic leader and support staff to drive collaboration between adoption agencies across the country and lead engagement with other services such as health and education to help children and adopters get the support they need.<\/li><\/ul>
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Since the national #YouCanAdopt campaign began, we have seen a continued increase in the number of approvals of adopters. We now have more adopters (2,140) than children waiting (2,020).<\/p>
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